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Moving into an
Unknown Territory
Innovators,
intrapreneurs and
change leaders must have
freedom to
experiment and, naturally,
freedom to fail
because experimentation is about moving into an unknown territory.
Freedom to fail
forward means a freedom to explore, venture, experiment
and succeed in uncharted territory.
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Creating anything new is a trial
and error process by its very nature.
The key to success is to treat
both
noble failures and unexpected successes as highly valuable
feedback, ask
learning SWOT questions and act on the answers to them. |
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In
radical innovation, every step forward is a step into
terra incognita where
opportunities are guides and
failures are teachers.
Risk is a just an easy choice between fear of falling down and a
chance to take off. |
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Risk is a just an easy choice between fear of falling down and a
chance to take off. |
Vadim Kotelnikov
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Noble Failure as a
Primary Vehicle for Success
Noble
failure provides a great
learning
opportunity and should be viewed as a very lifeblood of success.
In
innovation and
change
efforts, it is only by trying lots of
initiatives that you can improve your chances that one of
them will be a
real
breakthrough.
Intelligent failure provides a great
learning opportunity and
leads to success. It is through seeming failures and
turning failures to opportunities that most of greatest
successes are achieved. It is by trying lots of disruptive
initiatives that you can improve your chances that one of them will
be a star...
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To Let or Not To
Let?
All you do by not letting your people fail is
postpone the growth of your business. Why? Because the more you fail, the more you succeed. You
learn from
taking action, from your mistakes, from
feedback, from getting
going.
Making mistakes is essential to
innovation and
organizational growth, as long as systems are developed to avoid making the
same mistake twice.
"Real
motivation
comes
from within.
People have to be given the freedom to succeed or fail."
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Gordon Forward |
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Learn from Feedback
and Advance
According to
NLP,
there is no failure, only
feedback.
Actually, it is only through seeming
failures that most of greatest successes in life and business are achieved.
Like beauty, "failure" or "success" is in the eye of the beholder. If you
fall short of reaching a goal, ask
Learning
SWOT Questions
and see how you can emerge stronger from this experience. How can you
prevent such failures in
future? Can you turn this "failure"
to an opportunity? How
could this "failure" and the lessons learned from it be turned to a longer
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An idea that is not
dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. |
Oscar
Wilde |
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I have not failed
700 times. When I have eliminated
the ways that will not work, I will
find the way that will work. |
Thomas
Edison |
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Anyone who has never made a
mistake has never tried anything new. |
Albert
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Don’t be afraid to make a
mistake. But make sure you don’t
make the same mistake twice. |
Akio Morita |
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Break rules
and "fail forward" so that change is part of the
culture, and little setback
is experienced...
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Tom Kelley
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